Head of Ecosystem at Aztec

Writing stuff occasionally at mirror.xyz/brunny.eth

This one is longer, I had a HIGH LEVEL idea on how to improve proving speeds. It’s simple

Assume we have a ZKP scheme with a tunable parameter for the security strength.

Where:

High security -> Slow
Low security -> Fast

We can tune the parameter to be faster, and curb the security by measuring proving duration…

I think what you're discussing is similar to a verifiable delay function. They are useful in theory but in practise nobody has produced one that works. They are also very vulnerable to improvements in state of the art compute.

CEO @aztecnetwork. Building a privacy-first L2 on Ethereum. Cryptographer, software engineer, ex-particle physicist. Plonk co-author. Huff inventor.

Pfff, I’ve never gave it a shot though 😏